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Marine Services. v. t. e. The Royal Marines Band Service is the musical wing of the Royal Navy and an independent element of the Royal Marines. It currently consists of five bands plus a training wing – the Royal Marines School of Music at HMS Nelson – and its headquarters is at HMS Excellent, Whale Island, Portsmouth.
The Band of the Grenadier Guards marching outside Buckingham Palace. The military bands of the United Kingdom are musical units that serve for protocol and ceremonial duties as part of the British Armed Forces. They have been the basis and inspiration for many military bands in the former British Empire and the larger Commonwealth of Nations as ...
A Life on the Ocean Wave. Categories: British military bands. Navy music. Organisations based in Portsmouth. Royal Marine formations and units. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after British musical groups.
HMS Queen Elizabeth March. HMS Queen Elizabeth March, composed by WO2 bandmaster John Morrish RM, [1] was the winning composition for the 2012 Royal Marines Band Service March Competition, sponsored by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance. The march was written for the first of the new generation of Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth -class aircraft carriers .
A Life on the Ocean Wave. "A Life on the Ocean Wave" is a poem-turned-song by Epes Sargent published in 1838 and set to music by Henry Russell. It is the iconic Regimental March of His Majesty's Royal Marines.
The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Portsmouth joined residents for lunch in Redditch after their performance. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
The Deal barracks bombing was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, England. It took place at 8:22 am on 22 September 1989, when the IRA exploded a time bomb at the Royal Marines School of Music building. The building collapsed, killing 11 marines from the Royal Marines Band Service and ...
1920s–70s. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis Vivian Dunn KCVO OBE FRSA (24 December 1908 – 3 April 1995) was a British conductor who was Director of Music of the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines from 1931 to 1953 and Principal Director of Music of the Royal Marines from 1953 to 1968. He was the first British Armed Forces musician to be ...